W2K partitioning

[ccnguy]

I am working with a 60gb hard drive. I'm not sure whether I want 1 partition or 2. I remember with NT 4.0 I would make a System partition then a Swap partition then an application partition. Is it really necessary to seperate the pagefile from the system files in 2000? Am I losing anything by making the partition 60gb as opposed to 5 or 10mb? What about installing the apps on a seperate partition even though some files will reside in the windows directory?

Thanks

 

[njchetwood]

The usual advice is that having multiple partitions simplifies actions like defragging, back up etc. I have always kept my data on a separate partition for simple dumping to CDR (or now to DVD-RW as the stuff just grows!)
You may want to have different file systems - for big video files you need NTFS, while for documents FAT32 works OK and takes less space.